Yes! Ordinary World, amazing song and my favourite Duran Duran track!

 

The Aurora and Naimee Coleman trance cover in 2000 is also great imo!

Edited February 4, 20187 yr by The Snake

864. All Together Now - The Farm (1990)

 

 

Countries' borders were right out of sight

When they joined together and decided not to fight

 

This was a top 5 single for The Farm with the music based on Johann Pachelbel's Canon and the lyrics about the Christmas truce of 1914.

 

863. Dancing With Tears In My Eyes - Ultravox (1984)

 

 

The man on the wireless cries again

It's over,it's over

 

Written about a nuclear power plant meltdown,this was Ultravox's second highest charting single,reaching no.3. Quite unusually,the chorus precedes the first verse.

 

862. The Wall Street Shuffle - 10cc (1974)

 

 

You've gotta be cool on Wall Street

When your index is low

Dow Jones ain't got time for the bums

They wind up on skid row with holes in their pockets

 

The first 10cc song in my chart to feature the classic line-up of Godley,Creme,Stewart and Gouldman. It was a top 10 hit and was written by Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman.

 

861. The Return Of The Giant Hogweed - Genesis (1971)

 

 

They are invincible

They seem immune to all our herbicidal battering

 

Taken from their third album 'Nursery Cryme', the first to feature Phil Collins on drums and Steve Hackett on lead guitar. The Giant Hogweed is a real plant which can grow as high as 18 feet. Although it's not quite as dangerous as the song's lyrics suggest,it can cause blisters and scars which can last several years.

 

Edited February 5, 20187 yr by King Rollo

860. Jealousy - Pet Shop Boys (1990)

 

 

Where've you been?

Who've you seen?

You didn't phone when you said you would

 

From their album 'Behaviour' this song was written way back in 1982,the first one they wrote. I like the orchestral arrangement towards the end.

 

I love All Together Now, anthemic and sounds a bit ahead of its time for 1990, I used to think it was mid 90s before I found out.

 

Wall Street Shuffle is very good.

 

My favourite Genesis songs (I don't know all of them tbh though) are probably 'Land Of Confusion', 'Mama' and 'Jesus He Knows Me' and the lovely 'Ripples' from the later era and the epic progressive rock track 'Supper's Ready' from the early era.

 

 

859. Those Who Move Clouds - Howard Jones (1989)

 

 

The throwing of your mental clothes wasn't ever your intention

 

The hit singles had dried up for Howard Jones by 1989,but this has a big epic sound to it.

 

I love All Together Now, anthemic and sounds a bit ahead of its time for 1990, I used to think it was mid 90s before I found out.

 

Wall Street Shuffle is very good.

 

My favourite Genesis songs (I don't know all of them tbh though) are probably 'Land Of Confusion', 'Mama' and 'Jesus He Knows Me' and the lovely 'Ripples' from the later era and the epic progressive rock track 'Supper's Ready' from the early era.

 

Some good picks there.

 

ooh some major classics now for me!

 

Split into 2 categories, classics that I under-appreciated (like Teardrop Explodes which "only" hit number 2, Depeche Mode's little gem, Jealousy and Cambodia (just a top 10 at the time, now they would top my chart as would t'other 2), Murray Head (Number 2 Abba brilliance), The Farm...

 

and then there's the number 1's in my charts Wall Street Shuffle (2 weeks on top) criminally not in my top 850 (it needs a nice excuse to rechart it) cos it's brilliant, exciting and the lyrics about fat cat money grabbers are even more relevant than they were at the time, Killer Queen (4 weeks on top), Messages (3 weeks), Ordinary World (1 week), Always On My Mind (3 weeks).

 

I agree with Snake about Genesis: Mama and Land Of Confusion are the classic singles for me, though alos love Turn It On Again, Follow Me Follow You, I Know What I Like (In Your wardrobe) in particular.

Good to see you like so many of the latest batch,John. Some of those Genesis songs may still appear.

858. Restless - UNKLE featuring Josh Homme (2007)

 

 

Let's rip me from the breakage and solvents

 

From their third album 'War Stories' which had more of a rock sound to it than the trip hop of the first two albums. There were several guest singers,with Josh Homme from Queens Of The Stone Age doing the vocals on this one which was released as a single.

 

857. Everybody Hurts - REM (1992)

 

 

When you're sure you've had enough

of this life,well hang on

 

I've never been a fan of REM but this is a great song with an equally memorable video.

 

 

856. Jungle - Electric Light Orchestra (1977)

 

 

We sat and sang under the moon

And the jungle rang in joyful harmony

 

From their fantastic double album 'Out Of The Blue',this is a fun song. How wonderful that someone has done a puppet video for it.

 

855. Don't Lose Your Head - Queen (1986)

 

 

Don't lose your head

If you make it to the top and you wanna stay alive

 

From the soundtrack to 'Highlander',this was written by Roger Taylor whose drums are quite prominent. Joan Armatrading makes a vocal cameo. I can't think of any other Queen song that includes a female vocal other than the film inserts in 'Flash'.

 

 

 

854. Ruined In A Day - New Order (1993)

 

 

You could be the lover of jade

Forever on your own in the shade

 

From the 'Republic' album,this got to no.22. It sounds a lot different to most of their songs but you can definitely tell from the production that it's from the 90s.

 

853. Never Comes The Day - The Moody Blues (1969)

 

 

Give just a little bit more

Take a little bit less

 

Very few sing a ballad as well as Justin Hayward. This is from the Moodies' fourth album 'On The Threshold Of A Dream'. Although the album got to no.1,this song was a flop as a single and didn't chart. Cutting its length down to from 4.43 to 2.42 wasn't a good idea.

 

 

852. In The Dark - DJ Tiesto featuring Christian Burns (2007)

 

 

We'll find each other in the dark

 

Back to some dance music now. A top 5 hit in some European countries but this only got to no.133 in the UK.

 

 

852. In The Dark - DJ Tiesto featuring Christian Burns (2007)

We'll find each other in the dark

 

Back to some dance music now. A top 5 hit in some European countries but this only got to no.133 in the UK.

 

I didn't expect to see this in your Top 1000..

Yeah I never really understood why it failed to take off in the UK. My memories of this are from TimePiece nightclub in Exeter which used to play it quite a lot in summer '07, particularly loved the Tiësto's Trance Mix of this.

 

Christian Burns was in BBMak I think, who had some minor success in the UK at the start of the 2000s.

Indeed he was. I think I know the song from seeing the video on one of the music channels. I wrote down what it was and downloaded it.